Violence in Sudan, Alcohol Use, North Korea: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the violence in Sudan, preventing alcohol-related deaths, the North Korean nuclear threat, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - April 28, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
This Drink Reduces Growth Of New Brain Cells 40%
New brain cells in the hippocampus -- an area critical for memory -- were reduced by 40%. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Alcohol Source Type: blogs
Compare these two ECGs. Do either, neither, or both show anything important?
One case sent by Dr. Sean Rees MD, written by Pendell Meyers, other case by Sam Ghali and Steve SmithTake a look at these two ECGs below from two patients in the ED, first without any clinical context. Full case details and outcomes are below.Case 1:Case 2: Case 1:What do you think?This was sent to Dr. Smith by SamGhali (@EM_RESUS) with zero other info. Smith ' s response was: " OMI Mimic. "Later, this info was supplied by Sam:This
ECG was recorded in a 23-year-old African American man with a history
of psychiatric illness, acute alcohol/drug intoxication, brought in by
police officers status post being ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 17, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Arizona Governor Hobbs Makes the Right Call by Vetoing Fentanyl Mandatory Minimums Bill
Jeffrey A. SingerToday Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoedSB 1027, which would have placed a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison on the first offense, and 15 years on the second offense, for anyone convicted of possessing, distributing, transferring, selling, or manufacturing heroin, fentanyl, or fentanyl analogs. In 2006 Arizona voters passedProposition 301, imposing mandatory minimum prison sentences for possessing, transferring, selling, distributing, or manufacturing methamphetamine. This did nothing to decrease meth ‐related deaths.Meth ‐related drug deaths per 100,000 increased nationally...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 11, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
The Tyranny of Prosecutors
Clark NeilyAmong the most chilling lines of the 20th century was when Josef Stalin ’s chief of secret police Lavrenty Beria sought to assure his boss that literally anyone could be convicted and purged by boasting, “You show me the man, and I will find you the crime. ” Today, few American prosecutors would make that same boast (at least out loud), but they certainly could. Just ask Donald Trump.Is Trump a crook? Probably. Has he shown consistent disdain for norms throughout his professional and political career, including legal norms like honoring contracts, paying taxes, and truth in advertising? Absolutel...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 7, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Neily Source Type: blogs
Farm Bill 2023 and Obesity
This study found U.S. farm policies “have generally small and mixed effects on farm commodity prices, which in turn have even smaller and still mixed effects on the relative prices of more‐ and less‐fattening foods.”Farm subsidy/ nutrition issues are hotly debated, and I have not done a detailed research review. If Congress withdrew subsidies from corn, wheat, soybeans, and rice, would U.S. farming shift toward healthier fruits and vegetables? Are the subsidized crops and related oils a cause of obesity, and has the go vernment given Americans bad nutrition advice about these products for decades, asNina T...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
The Number of Alcoholic Drinks That Makes You Look More Attractive (M)
The amount of alcohol that makes the drinker themselves look more attractive to others. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Attractiveness Social psychology subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
ChemistGPT
There was lots of talk of ChatGPT apparently deciding to teach itself organic chemistry…now…ChatGPT is language model, it’s not really an artificial intelligence (AI) in the strict sense, all it really is is a sophisticated autocomplete that analyses your prompts and weighs up the most likely combination of words with which to reply. I wondered whether the only chemistry in all that hype was the chemistry between olfactory receptor and odourant molecules in bovine ordure. So, I set it a challenge, giving it the following prompt:
You are to act as an expert organic chemist. You need to devise a reaction sc...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 27, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Chemistry Source Type: blogs
This Drink May Cut Dementia Risk In Half
It can help clear the brain of toxins. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Alcohol Dementia Source Type: blogs
How To Reduce Binge Drinking Desire (M)
People sensitive to the temptations of alcohol could focus on their mission, purpose and values in life. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Addiction subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Biden ’s Math of Just Taxing the Rich Doesn’t Add Up
Adam N. MichelDespite the headlines, thePresident ’s 2024 Budget demonstrates how challenging it is to raise significant new tax revenue from a small minority of wealthy taxpayers. The budget raises about $1.8 trillion from non‐corporate taxpayers over ten years. Yet, following all the rhetoric about the rich not paying their fair share, it should be striking that across more than twenty new and expanded taxes, the administration’s plan does not even raise enough revenue from wealthy taxpayers to cover new spending proposed in Biden’s budget, let alone theprojected $20 trillion deficit over the next ten years....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
The real cause of America ’ s opioid crisis: Doctors are not to blame
We’ve all heard about America’s so-called “opioid epidemic.” Nearly 100,000 people died in 2021 of causes that included overdose by one or more narcotic drugs and often alcohol. We also hear assertions from anti-opioid advocates that this epidemic was caused by doctors “over-prescribing” opioid pain relievers to their patients. These assertions are fundamentally wrong on
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The real cause of America’s opioid crisis: Doctors are not to blame originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Richard A. Lawhern, PhD Tags: Meds Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 20th 2023
This study also provides the potential for de novo generation of complex organs in vivo.
T Cells May Play a Role in the Brain Inflammation Characteristic of Neurodegenerative Conditions
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/03/t-cells-may-play-a-role-in-the-brain-inflammation-characteristic-of-neurodegenerative-conditions/
Alzheimer's disease, and other forms of neurodegenerative condition, are characterized by chronic inflammation in brain tissue. Unresolved inflammatory signaling is disruptive of tissue structure and function. Here, researchers provide evidence for T cells to become involved in thi...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Reducing Glycerol and Glyceraldehyde Levels Extends Life in Nematodes
Researchers here note an approach to extending life by 50% in nematode worms that functions by lowering levels of glycerol and glyceraldehyde in tissues. Lower animals such as nematodes have a far greater plasticity of life span in response to interventions than is the case for mammals. Thus this research is worth taking note of, a suggestion that this area of metabolism is worthy of more attention, but implementing something similar in mammalian species should not be expected to do more than modestly slow aging.
Glycerol and glyceraldehyde are harmful by-products of fat that naturally accumulate over time. Prior...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
How Alcohol Affects The Cerebral Cortex
The more alcohol people drank, the greater the damage to the cerebral cortex. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 15, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Alcohol Source Type: blogs
